Cricket: Black Caps 'They have thrown us a lifeline'

10:04 AM Sunday Mar 17, 2013

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Cricket: Black Caps 'They have thrown us a lifeline'

10:04 AM Sunday Mar 17, 2013

If New Zealand get to Eden Park this week at 0-0, they'll be exceedingly happy.
The cricket nation will be pleasantly surprised too after the grim forebodings of the gulf between themselves and England in test terms.
Whether they do draw this test almost certainly depends on events at the Basin Reserve today, when New Zealand, following on 211 runs behind, start the fourth day at 77 for one. They are 134 runs short of making England bat a second time, and, as an old French teacher would have described it, with a job of work to do.